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/ McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMIClC S. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1939 By LEMUEL F. PARTON N EW YORK.—Somebody was al ways turning in a riot call when Igor Stravinsky’s “Fire Bird” and “Sartre du Printemps” were first ‘Wild 9 Composer Spears Harvard Professorship played. He was the Earl Browder of the salons and musical con servatories, but now he’s as respect able as Nicholas Murray Butler, as he takes his post as professor of po etry at Harvard. As he writes his fourth symphony, he enjoys full and complete academic sanction for what were once considered the wild vagaries of his compositions. In Russia, his parents wanted him to be a lawyer. Rimsky- Korsakoff was the Pied Piper who lured him from law books to outlaw music, but who un leashed his genius and himself profited as Stravinsky became one of his most knowing and gifted interpreters. Thf frail person of Professor Stra- vinsky, as he may now be called, has been shaken and racked by the torrent of his genius, and every so often he has found it necessary to take time out in Switzerland for re pairs. But, at 54, he still has furious vitality and is still at mid-way in his creative career. With a sharp pencil he spears superaural sounds. Marshaling them in a symphony, he looses demons, to slay them with his baton. This demoniac disso nance caused riots in France when his compositions were first produced. It took quite a few years for discerning critics to discover that he “planned it that way,” and that there was law and order in his music. A/IUCH is being written currently ■ LY - 1 in comparison of the intellec tual climate of America today with that of the immediate pre-war pe- Vet Steel Maker £, iod of 191 ^ Eugene G. Debunks War as Grace, presi- Source of Profit ' ^Vehem Steel corporation, offers something possibly worthy weighing in this bal ance in his vehement repudiation of any desire for war profits. “We don’t want any war to Inflate Bethlehem’s business,” says Mr. Grace. “We prefer peace. We are in a position to be war baby number one, as in the last war, but I can tell you that our directors and associates don’t want that kind of business. I’d like to see the war stop to day. Bethlehem would be better off if it did.” In contrast are the words of an other great industrialist, now dead, who, at a New York luncheon club in January, 1917, spoke as follows: “America has come of age. Its ships cannot be driven from the seas; its citizens will go wherever their trade or business leads them. No insolent chaUenge to our enter prise will stay us in our peaceful pursuits whenever and wherever we choose to go. And I say to you that our great business establishment will remain world business for what ever profit may legitimately accrue. It is'not only our right, but patriotic duty to seize opportunity to main tain the full solvency of this na tion.” Mr. Grace, as president of both Bethlehem Steel and the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corpora tion, had special charge of all production of cannon, armor plate and munitions during the World war. Last summer, he rounded out 40 years with Beth lehem, one of the great steel- masters of the country. After his graduation in electrical en gineering at Lehigh university, his first job at the company was operating an electric crane. He became general superintend ent, manager and a director in 1911. He became president in 1913. He is 63 years old. C OMPARISONS are dangerous, but it would appear that Walter A. Wood, wearing the colors of the American Geographical society, has Intrepid Climber " ^ Maps Peaks of mountain- Elia, Mountain, ^epsUkes* His currently reported achievement in mapping the peaks of the Elias mountain range in the Yukon terri tory caps a list of hazardous assign ments of the last six years, in most of which Mrs. Wood has shared. Last March, he led several companions up a 19,000-foot peak in the Alpine jungles of the Si erra Nevada de Santa Marta range in Colombia. With the Louis Boyd expedition to east Greenland in 1933, Mr. Wood has traversed many countries, in the last six years, on research missions for t.ie American Geographical so ciety. (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) France Demonstrates Undersea Fighting Technique Accent is on undersea fighting in the present European conflict, and France, with some of the world’s finest submarines, is prepared for whatever may come. Here is a graphic idea of the fighting technique of an undersea warship. Upper left: Brains of the submarine is the man at the periscope. He navigates her into firing position. Upper right: Here’s what the navigator sees. The periscope’s crossed lines spot the target, the “ladder” gives him the range. Lower left: The torpedo crew slides one of the deadly “fish” into its tube. Lower right: The torpedo is in place and all is set for the order to “fire!” War in Europe Influences American Christmas Toys The influence of war was distinctly noticeable in the preview of American Christmas toys held in New York recently. In addition to guns, tanks and planes, there were toy ambulances and other first aid equip ment. A little war nurse in toy uniform inspects her battlefield casualty—a doll. A young soldier has the time of his life with front line equipment. Igloo Dwellers Go Modern—in New York Just in Case— The Mayokoks, only full-blooded Eskimo family in the United States, were saved from a dangerous 7,000-mile journey to blizzard-swept Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, when the husband found a new job. During the closed season Mayokok will serve as caretaker of the World’s fair carrier igloo in New York. Battlefront Headgear Stresses Safety f—• • • :•••• •••••• •••• ••••••• •'••••••••••••• • ••••••: • • • • ;■•••• ••j!?'**''-,'7 "'' With camouflaging weeds fastened on their steel helmets to fool enemy airmen, three Tommies of the East Surrey British regiment pause to light their cigarettes. Natural and artificial camouflages have been developed to a high degree by both sides of the present conflict. The United States coast guard at Miami, Fla., takes no chances. When foreign submarines were re ported to have been sighted in Florida waters, coast guard officials painted a large American flag on the underside of the wing for identifica tion purposes. ‘Fixed’ Fighter Harry Thomas, Eagle Bend, Minn., heavyweight fighter, started a boxing war recently when he an nounced his fights with Max Schmel- ing and Tony Galento were “fixed.” Investigation was opened when Thomas declared he was paid “bly money” to lose the fights. Star Dust ★ Trick of the Peacock ★ It's Micky With Judy 'fr First Up Gets It! By Virginia Vale W HEN an actress who is fa mous for wearing beauti ful clothes beautifully wants to get a bit of extra publicity, it’s usually a good trick for her to announce that she’d just love to have a role in which she wore rags. Usually, too, she hasn’t the faintest desire to wear rags, or any thing faintly approaching them; she’d scream and gnaw the woodwork if any one suggested it. But women who can’t dress as she does on the stage or in pic tures are sup posed to like her better for saying that she’s tired of being a clothes horse. Joan Crawford is proving that she really wants to be something more than a modiste’s mannequin. In “Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep,” her new picture in which Clark Gable plays opposite her, she has just one dress. There may have to be replacements, it’s true, for she has to do quite a bit of dashing about in a South American jungle, but technically it will be the same frock. That is, according to the pres ent announcements it will be. As for Gable, he’s to be a really tough egg; escapes from a prison colony and all that sort of thing. "■ :a With some of these ladies of the screen it’s a calamity if the public doesn’t see through that ostrich- with-its-head-in-the-sand disguise of dark glasses. Not long ago your correspondent lunched with one, in New York. We just went in, sat doAvn and ordered luncheon. Dis mayed, the lady glanced around. “Isn’t anybody looking at me?” she asked, in anguished tones. ^ Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland are going to go with on—and on, and on—as a team, because the pub lic likes them. “Babes in Arms” has decided that; it pairs them musically as well as ro mantically, fin ishing the work begun in “Love Finds Andy Har dy” and “Thor oughbreds Don’t Cry.” Inciden tally, people who meet him like the Rooney lad a lot better than they did for a while, when he was accused of having a swelled head and all the things that go with it. He’s grown into a likable chap, mod est rather than bumptious, and he and the pretty Judy make such a nice pair that the people who pay to see them on the screen seem to want them to stick together. Judy Garland There’s a tradition in radio that the first actor to try out for a part is sure not to get it. Dorothy Knox has proved that it isn’t so. She competed with 27 other actresses for the role of “Frieda” in “The Life and Loves of Dr. Susan”—was the first to enter the audition room and the last to leave it—and she got the part. Major Bowes is rapidly becoming a public benefactor. Not long ago he presented St. Patrick’s cathedral in New York with 11 Schwedleri maples and. four English elms—a gift which cannot be appreciated by anyone who does not know how bar ren New York is of trees, or how some of its inhabitants long to see one. The trees are magnificent, a ivihg tribute to the Major’s thought fulness. Now he has given his estate. Laurel Hill, at Ossining, N. Y., to the Lutheran church for a retreat for the clergy and laity of New York and nearby states. The 10- acre estate is a show place, filled with memories for Major Bowes; he and the late Mrs. Bowes, who was Margaret Illington, the famous ac tress, bought it in 1927, and through the years they landscaped it, in stalled a swimming pool, and did everything they could to make it beautiful. Major Bowes not only gave the estate to the church, but added a substantial gift to help equip it. ODDS AND ENDS—Charles Boyer is. to come to this country on a propaganda mission for the French government . . . Greta Garbo is not only going to be a comedienne in her new picture, "Ninotch- lea”—she's going to do a scene in which she drinks just a bit too much champagne . . . Andrea Leeds was married recently in Del Monte, Calif., to Robert S. Howard, whose father owns a famous racing stable . . . The British government wouldn't grant Edward Small permission to film some of \he scenes of "My Son, My Son!” against \he actual backgrounds in Manchester, London, and other cities, so the entire Him will be made in Hollywood. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BABY CHICKS BRED FOR PRODUCTION: Docks RAISED FOR PROFIT: Chicks SOLD BY QUALITY: Turkeys STARTED CHICKS: Pallets MILFORD HATCHERYpYwes^ue pfo! — No culls. 100 postpaid Send Money Order for Prompt Shipment. Live Delivery Guaranteed ATLAS CO., 2651 Chouteau, St. Louis, Mo. PEACE I 'HE greatest guarantee of peace is a public opinion that desires peace. Without a knowledge of the facts we cannot have such a public opinion. Give light and the people-will find their own way.”—U. S. Senator Henry C. Lodge Jr. Bag Was Positively Golfer s Last Chance The fat man decided to try golf. Armed with six golf clubs, a ball, and a caddie, he marched off to the links. The caddie placed the ball on the tee. 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